Don’t educate me about the Tea Party movement. I was an organizer of one of the first rallies in 2009 in Ventura, CA, where a few thousand people showed up.
In Roane County we’ve had an active Tea Party for a while. Believe it or not, some of the leaders have OFFICES and PHONE NUMBERS.
Again, the Tea Party is a movement, it is not a person or persons, and there are no elected leaders. Anyone calling themselves a “representative” of it or holding an “office” claiming to be is full of crap.
And if it was misused to anoint a frequent Democrat contributor in Bill Lee, that makes it as “fake” as those ads you just cited.